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Meal families

Desserts

Berliner doughnut

Fried doughnuts filled with jam, marmalade, custard… topped with powdered sugar or granulated sugar.

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Desserts

Vatrushka with vanilla

Russia. Ukraine.
Brioche-style cake filled with cream cheese, sometimes flavored.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop fricassee

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Baked green bell pepper

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Rabbit

Saddle of rabbit with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch fillets with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Provençal scallops

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Offal and tripe

Veal kidney with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts

Pièce montée

Traditional large dessert served at communions, weddings, or festive meals.
Generally features an architectural shape and significant ornamentation.

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Main meals

Chicken gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.

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Poultry

Roast goose Alsatian style

Stuffed goose serve with sauerkraut.

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Main meals

Lamb tajine with lemon confit

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Sea fish

Grilled salmon a l’unilateral

A l'unilateraly : cooked on one side only, usually for fish cooked only on the skin side.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

White asparagus with cream vinaigrette sauce

Cream vinaigrette : fresh cream, vinegar, pepper.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with spring vegetables

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Sauces

Caper sauce

Caper sauce : creamy white sauce with egg yolks, lemon juice and capers Cream and egg yolk sauce with lemon and capers.

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